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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
Message-ID: <2623@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 4 Jan 89 21:24:15 GMT
References: <19@xenlink.UUCP> <7328@chinet.chi.il.us> <144@bms-at.UUCP> <79@attibr.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <79@attibr.UUCP>, vch@attibr.UUCP (Vincent C. Hatem) writes:
> In article <144@bms-at.UUCP>, stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart Gathman) writes:
> } and the works.  AT&T curses is so buggy, we had no choice but to
> } replace it...

> Come, come now... AT&T didn't invent it - they stole it from Berkley.

The AT&T implementation and the Berkeley implementation have to be quite
different internally. The BSD version uses the TERMCAP database, and the
AT&T version uses the TERMINFO database. These databases are similar in
goals, but quite different in design and implementation.
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